Description
“A LOVE STORY JUST BEFORE IT BEGINS.
In the language of flowers, lilacs symbolize the first, tentative, yet exhilarating, moments of love. The lilac is a flower that speaks to its beholder, both with its delicate, textured appearance, and the familiar-yet-intoxicating scent at its heart. A unique fragrance dedicated to an unforgettable woman of memorable charm, and passionate nature, who spent hours tending to her garden of lilacs in the French countryside. Tenderness at its most pure and undaunted; a love story just before it begins.” – a note from the brand.
A Lilac a Day by Vilhelm Parfumerie is a Floral fragrance for women. This is a new fragrance. A Lilac a Day was launched in 2016. Top notes are lilac and freesia; middle notes are egyptian jasmine and galbanum; base notes are black amber and turkish rose oil. The nose behind this fragrance is Jerome Epinette.
cvbn – :
A big thank you to Monique who sent the sample to me. Lilac is always in bloom everywhere here in the UK in early May. I can always pick a few flowers for my birthday.
This is a pretty good recreation of that scent. A touch more peppery than the real thing but very good and very wearable. The freesia adds the pepperiness. The galbanum provides it’s usual fresh and green contribution. I think galbanum should be the official note of spring. Well, it is to me. The galbanum doesn’t hang around long here though.
The lilac does last though and it’s very much supported by jasmine. Picking out the rose or ambergris is very hard. The rose perhaps adds a touch of sweetness. You have to wait an hour or two when the scent is waining for them to really become evident. Not surprisingly it’s the ambergris that carries through to the end.
A lovely spring floral and considering the notes it has decent longevity. I think it’s a pretty ageless and timeless scent. It’s for when visiting family and friends. Happy times!
I get moderate longevity and sillage.
zodoPradese – :
This is a proper lilac scent as others mentioned. Lilac is a hard floral to find in perfume and body products. Tons of lavender out there but not alot of lilac. The lilac here is treated the same way lily of the valley is in most muguet soliflores. That is with a hefty dose of soft (not sharp) green notes from which the purple floral springs forth. The greens, in the opening, are synthetic smelling almost to the point of smelling like banana. Whatever that aroma chemical is that veers toward banana, I’ve smelled it in Carillon Pour Un Ange and other muguets and it’s used in abundance here. That’s not really meant as a criticism, just an observation. I ended up selling my bottle of A Lilac A Day because it turns out that I seldom reached for this pricey juice. But it deserves the distinction of being the most realistic lilac fragrance out there and is a must try for all fans of that particular flower.
rusbos – :
This is a truly beautiful fragrance. The most authentic, fresh lilac you could imagine. I love to smell fresh flowers, now I can just smell my arm. So uplifting, a warm spring day, running in a meadow, I adore this.
It sweetens over time; but not in a sickly way at all. In a perfect, sweet, lovely, flower way.
Conishua – :
A perfect real-life lush lilac! Bravo.
Unrelaendon – :
I remember the day I fell in love with this perfume. It was a milder than usual November afternoon and I was in London with my husband and daughter for our annual pre Christmas jaunt to the city. Liberty was the last place we visited that day. Walking through the entrance, it was full of metal pails filled with fresh flowers (unusual in the winter I thought) and smelt glorious. I made a beeline for the Vilhelm Parfumerie counter having read about this perfume in a magazine and Liberty being the only stockist in the UK (as far as I know), this was my only chance to sniff it so I’d been anticipating this opportunity all day.
Upon first spray I was back in the entrance way to the store, my face buried in the fresh blooms, the cut stalks, the lush green leaves… I was besotted instantly! I’ve been searching for an authentic, green floral for years. So many floral fragrances are muddled and diluted with the addition of too many other notes, rendering them too fruity or artificial smelling. A Lilac a Day is the most authentic floral fragrance I have ever smelt of any kind. It is pure, lush green flowers, it smells exactly like walking into a florists shop (one that isn’t full of lilies thank goodness), or burying your face in a lilac bush. Other floral scents may make similar claims but I guarantee that none of them will smell as genuinely authentic as thIs one. This isn’t your usual powdery or sweet floral, oh no! This is a queen amongst florals, a truly stunning experience and superb longevity to boot.
Back to that day in London, I looked at my husband with imploring eyes but he declined to allow me to purchase the perfume having already treated me to another perfume in Harrods. I’ve thought about this perfume ever since though, regularly searching the internet to see if anywhere else stocks it yet. This story has a happy ending though, two days ago on Christmas Day I unwrapped one of my gifts from my husband and to my utter surprise and delight saw a bright yellow box containing this beauty.
tavor – :
This is a very definite lilac, bursting into flower from an opening of softer, damp, spring garden. After twenty minutes or so it is blooming thoroughly , and having applied it on a cold but sunny winter morning I am beginning to fancy something warmer. This is a true spring scent and in spring that flowery sharpness would cut through the post winter fogs and announce itself.
Once the sun went in I needed to warm it up and soften it a little, its sweet abrasiveneas being a little too cool and sharp for comfort. I applied a spray or two of Villoresi’s Musk, something I often turn to if a fragrance needs toning down. That made it beautiful again. A little sweeter and warmer, with a delicate softness provided by the musk. Now the lilac is shining through without overpowering. It is a lilac blooming in a garden full of spring flowers and is very cheering on a grey day.
I do not get much sense of the other flowers in this, although some of the sharpness can be attributed to the freesias. At dry down, which takes a long time to come, the lilac softens on its own at last, and becomes a very delicate lilac skin scent.
This is the only perfume I have found that truly gives a sense of a real lilac, although even this one does not always oblige. It can shriek, as it did in the cold today, but it can be tempered by other good natured flowers. I like A Lilac A Day. It will keep its place in my fragrance wardrobe, the only true lilac I own.
nike2012 – :
A very unique take on the lilac. Beautiful. You know those gorgeous flowering tea balls? This to me is much of how Lilac A Day plays out on my skin. It starts out the lilacs buds…very green, the not-yet- blooming anticipation. After time, like steeping, the lovely blooms unfurl like the tea before your very eyes…
And it’s a lovely fresh purple dewy lilac. Exquisite. Very lady-like and realistic, fresh on the branch. Sparkling raindrops after a spring rain. A really lovely take on lilacs and one I am going have to save upon as it’s quite pricey. Longevity seems to be good and it is leaving a really lovely cloud on my hand…
Over time it dries down to a soft powdery lilac…